Positioning and Optimization of Traffic Collectors in IoT Topologies

• Grant number: 24/09341-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2024
• End date: February 28, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science
• Agreement: MCTI/MC
• Principal Investigator: Michele Nogueira Lima
• Grantee: Fernando Nakayama de Queiroz
• Host Institution: Instituto de Ciências Exatas (ICEx). Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Belo Horizonte , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 18/23098-0 - MENTORED: from modeling to experimentation - predicting and detecting DDoS and zero-day attacks, AP.TEM

Abstract

One of the main difficulties in ensuring security in an IoT environment concerns traffic monitoring since, unlike a conventional network environment, an IoT hub cannot see all surrounding devices or all communications coming from them. The Post-Doc Fellow involved in this project will work on planning a monitoring infrastructure for a large-scale IoT environment and a mechanism that analyzes the environment's traffic to identify attacks with low rates of false positives, which often occur due to the natural dynamics of the environment.